Re:As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its ...
by bonesss on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:34AM
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Amen, sister.
The complaints that Kubernetes is "complex" are obviously comparing it to more targeted solutions and ignoring the aggregate system that arises in its place.
If you find a tool with a better fit to the problem, then yay for you do the smart and simple thing. In practice, though, for many shops there's a major hodge-podge of almost-there solutions which require much more specialization on much less popular frameworks with much less vendor support to compete with Kubernetes.
Kubernetes did not come into a vacuum: it's disrupted some mature solution ecosystems by being much, much, better.
The complaints that Kubernetes is "complex" are obviously comparing it to more targeted solutions and ignoring the aggregate system that arises in its place.
If you find a tool with a better fit to the problem, then yay for you do the smart and simple thing. In practice, though, for many shops there's a major hodge-podge of almost-there solutions which require much more specialization on much less popular frameworks with much less vendor support to compete with Kubernetes.
Kubernetes did not come into a vacuum: it's disrupted some mature solution ecosystems by being much, much, better.